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Ghana 🇬🇭 Gets new Cardinal

Ghana 🇬🇭 Gets Another Cardinal The Catholic Bishop of the Wa Diocese, Most Rev. Richard Kuuia Baawobr, has been made a Cardinal by Pope Francis. The New Cardinal Elect from Ghana Ordianed Bishop of Wa in 2016, His Grace Bishop Richard Kuuia Baawobr, M. Afr., was born on June 21, 1959 in Tom-Zendagangn, Diocese of…

May 30, 2022
Cardinal Peter Turkson appointed as the new chancellor of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences.

Pope Francis on Monday appointed Cardinal Peter Turkson as the new chancellor of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences. The Ghanaian cardinal succeeds the 79-year-old Argentine Bishop Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo, who has led both institutions since 1998. The pope accepted Turkson’s resignation as prefect of the Vatican Dicastery for…

April 4, 2022

Ghana 🇬🇭 Gets new Cardinal